Fossil Record
2017

Fossil Record combines form and space, object and language, reading and deciphering. What do we see when we read a landscape? How is seeing different than reading? History leaves a mark, humans leave evidence. Through books, sculpture and found objects, the various parts of the installation explore place and its representation. Fossil Record is a close observation, documentation and interpretation of the landscape of County Clare, Ireland.

The Installation Fossil Record includes the following five artworks: Cloud Cairns with Cloud Handbooks, Flaggy Shore, Forces of Nature, Prototype, and Linear Thought.

Exhibition: Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis MN

Photos by Rik Sferra

Cloud Cairns with Cloud Handbooks
2017
Black Head Point, County Clare, Ireland
photographs, artist’s books
32”H x 40”W

Photos 1 & 2 by Rik Sferra

Flaggy Shore
2017
County Clare, Ireland
slate, artist’s book, coral fossils, limestone
Left 30”H x 60”W
Right 42”H x 26”W

Photos 1 & 2 by Rik Sferra

Forces of Nature
2017
The Burren, Ireland
magnetite lodestone, rubbings, rare earth magnets, Gaelic dictionary, library catalog cards
2 sections, each 78”H x 30”W

Photos by Rik Sferra

Prototype
2017
Ballyvaughan, Ireland
photographs, rubbings, dried seaweed, stencil, wood and plastic type
14”H x 42”W

Photo by Rik Sferra

Linear Thought
2017
Doolin, Ireland
calcite striped limestone, Seamus Heaney poems, mash up by Wirth
30”H x 42”H

Photo by Rik Sferra

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